Pyrimidine compounds and method of



' pyrimidine compounds.

Patented June 24, 1947 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PYRIMIDINE COMPOUNDS AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Francis Henry Swinden Curd and Francis Leslie Rose, Blackley, Manchester, England, assignors to Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, a corporation of Great Britain No Drawing. Application September 25, 1944, Serial No. 555,751. In Great Britain September 9 Glaims.

This invention relates to new pyrimidine col pounds and to processes for manufacturing the same. The said new compounds, which will be more closely defined hereinafter, may be described broadly as pyrimidines bearing in the 2- position an arylguanidino group free from acidic substituents and in the l-position a hydroxy group and optionally bearing hydrocarbon substituents in the 5- and d-positions. They are useful as intermediates in the manufacture of chemotherapeutic agents and particularly of the antimalarial agents of copending applications Ser. Nos. 555,750 and 555,752, of even date herewith.

It is an object of this invention to provide new A further object is to provide processes for making the same. A fur ther object is to provide new intermediates for chemotherapeutic agents and processes for mak ing the same. Further objects will appear hereinafter as the description proceeds. These and other objects are achieved by the following invention.

The said new compounds ar 2-arylguanidino 4-hydroxy-pyrlmidines wherein either or both of the 5- and fi-positions may be unsubstituted or substituted by a hydrocarbon radical and the aryl radical of the z-arylguanidino group is unsubstituted or substituted by one or more simple nonacidic substituents such, for example, as hydro-- carbon radicals (which themselves may optionally bear simple substituents and which may be at tached to the aryl radical directly or through an oxygen or sulphur atom or through an imino, sulphonyl or carbonyl group), halogen atoms or cyano, nitro, amino, acyl-amino, alkoxy or carboalkoxy groups.

We make the said new compounds by a process comprising the interaction of the corresponding arylbiguanides, optionally substituted by one or more simple non-acidic substituents, with aplected from the group consisting of hydrogen and hydrocarbon radicals, while ROH represents the esterifying alcohol on the formyl acetic ester selected.

The reaction is conveniently carried out by bringing the reagents together in presence of a solvent such, for example, as ethanol. If desired, the solution may be heated to speed up the reaction, although in some cases this may give rise to side-reactions, so that unnecessarily high reaction temperatures should be avoided.

The arylbiguanide may be used either as the free base or in the form of a salt such as the hydrochloride; in the latter case it is preferable to have present an acid-binding agent such as sodium ethoxide or caustic soda.

As examples of formylacetic esters suitable for use in this process there may be mentioned the esters of formylacetic, acetoacetic, a-formylpropicnic, a-formylbutyrlc, a-acetopropionic, ocacetobutyric, a-acetohexanoic, prcpionlyacetic, a-propionylpropionic, a-propionylbutyric, a-ben- Zoylacetic, a formyl phenylacetic, a-formyL- phenylpropionic and a-formyl-cyclohexylacetic acids. The ethyl or methyl esters are the most convenient, but other esters may be used. Many of these substituted formylacetic acids are known compounds; others may be made by Claisin reaction between the appropriate esters or by direct alkylation of the appropriate acylacetic ester. v a,

As examples of suitable arylbiguanides there may be mentioned the following: phenyl, o, m and p-chlorophenyl, o and p-methoxyphenyl, 0-, m and p-tolyl, o, and p-bromophenyl, p-methylmercaptophenyl, 2:4-, 215-, 3:4- and 3:5-dichlorophenyl, 3:4- and 3:5-dimethylphenyl, Z-methyll-chlorophenyl, 3-chloro-4-methylphenyl, 3 5- dibromophenyl, 4-dimethylaminophenyl, p-m'trophenyl, p-cyanophenyl, p-carbomethoxyphenyl,

propriate formylacetic esters optionally substi-- tuted by hydrocarbon radicals on the (1- and/or fi-carbon atoms. The reaction may be expressed wherein Ar represents an aryl radical fre of acidic substituents, X and Y are substituents se p-ethoxyphenyl, p-n butylphenyl, p phenylphenyl, ocand p-naphthyl, 4-chloro-l-naph'thyl,

EXAMPLE 1 29.25 parts of p-bromophenylbiguanide hydrochloride (conveniently made by refluxing an aqueous solution of equimolecular proportions of p-bromoaniline hydrochloride and dicyanodiamide) and 14 parts of a 32 per cent aqueous solution of caustic soda are stirred together in 90 parts of ethyl alcohol at C. After 15 minutes 13 parts of ethyl acetoacetate are added and the mixture is allowed to stand for 48 hours. crystalline precipitate which forms is filtered oif, washed with ethyl alcohol, then with water to dissolve out any sodium chloride, and finally dried at 100 C. It is 2-p-bromophenylguanidino-4-hydroXy-6-methylpyrimidine of M. .P. 252-254 C. (uncorr.).

Starting from other arylbiguanides and condensing in the same manner with 13 parts of ethyl acetoacetate, the following further Z-arylguanidino-4-hydroxy-6 methylpyrimidines are obtained, the data being tabulated for convenience. Table 1 shows the number of parts of th various arylbiguanides to be used as starting materials, whether used as salts or free bases and their melting points; the last column gives the melting points of the resulting 2-arylguanidino- 4-hydroxy-G-methylpyrimidines.

Table 1 The in the art that many other embodiments and variations may be devised without departing from the spirit and scope thereof and accordingly it is to be understood that the invention is not in anyway limited except as defined in the following claims.

In the claims below, the expression acidic substituents refers to radicals commonly recognized as ionizable, salt-forming, acid radicals, and typified by the carboxy, sulfonic acid and phenolic OH radicals. The term aryl is to be construed in a generic sense including aromatic hydrocarbon radicals and their substitution derivatives excepting, of course, such as may be explicitly excluded by the language of the claims.

We claim:

1. As new compounds, 4-hydroxypyrimidines bearing in the 2-position an arylguanidino group free from acidic substituents.

2. As new compounds, the pyrimidine dcrivatives of the formula wherein Ar is an aromatic radical which contains not more than 10 carbon atoms in its cyclic skeleton and which is devoid of acidic substituents, while X and Y represent substituents selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and Biguanide used as starting material Pyd nnnhydrocarbon radicals llle 3. As new compounds, 2-arylguanidino-4- o-of Salt o M- 6 hydroxy-S-methylpyrimidine wherein the aryl parts Arylgroup base C.

radical is an aromatic radical which contains not more than 10 carbon atoms in its cyclic g g g gggg ggg skeleton and is devoid of acidic substituents. [I 2211 B-Naphthyl 'iisse'I 180 259-262 4. As new Compounds, y u nidin -lg g ggfigg g;

8 hydroxy-5:B-dialkylpyrimidines wherein the aryl 5: o-ghloropi lleny i::: :::go:: 54 322 radical is an aromatic radical which contains i. pyaiiop eny u... l 0... 9.", 25.4 p-Acetylaniino-pheny Base" 166-168 260462 g more e 10 .carbon i Its cychc l0 m nt c. 11331.. 2 -3 s eleton and is devoid of acidic substituents. 1l 0- o o i2 24.15 3:4-I )imethylphenyl no... 223-224 246-248 new m u 4 P? 6 methyl l3 p-g'iti'ophgnyLfum "gem pyrimidines bearing in the 2-position a p-sub- 14 promo en o i I 15" 259 p Mgthygnempw mdom 22H 25mm stituted phenylguanidino group devoid of ac1d1c phenyl. substituents. gggf 3f" 202%4 gggggi 6. As new compounds 4-hydroxy-6-methyly a 18. 24.3 ,p-MethoXyphenylfln n H01 253 pyrimidines bearing in the 2-position a naphthyl- 4 6 methyl 256 20%255 guanidino group devoid of acidic substituents. 20... 28% 3:5-Dichlorophenyl HCl. 180-181 370-372 '7. As a new compound 4-hydroxy-6-methy1- pmmmphenyl 60 2 (4 chlorophenylguanidino) -pyrimidine, said D11 d t compound having a probable structure corre- ,2 2? sponding to the following formula:

Again starting from 24.8 parts of p-chlorophenylbiguanide and condensing in "the same manner as described in Example 1 but with other 01 H F p-keto esters, there are obtained the following .2- NH 4., arylguanidinohydroxypyrimidines, the data NOH being tabulatedfor convenience. 8. Process for the manufacture of 4-hydroxy- Table'Z 'g g ggg I Ester used Pyrimidi'ne-Compound obtained 22 Ethyl iormylacetate, 11.6 parts 2-p-chlorophenylguanidino-4-hydroxypyrimidine.

Ethyl a-formylphenylacetate, 19.2 parts.. Ethyl a-acetopropionate, 15.9 partsv Ethyl a-acetobutyrate, 173 parts.

Ethyl u acetohexanoate, 19.8 parts" Z-p-chlorophenylguanidinoi-hydroxy-fi-phe1iylpyrimidine.

2-p-chlorophenylguanidinoi-hydroxy-fizfi-dimethylpyrimidine, M. P. 266". Z-p-chlorophenylgiianidino4-hydroxy-5-ethyl-G-methylpyrimidine, M. P. 261. '2-p-chlorophenylguanidino-4-hydroxy-5-n-butyl-6-methylpyrimidine, M. P. 226.

Whereas the above description and examples illustrate many widely varied embodiments of the invention, it will be apparent to one skilled pyrimidines bearing in the 2-position an arylguanidino group free of acidic substituents, which comprises reacting the corresponding aryl-bi- 5 6 guanide with an ester of a formyl-acetic acid 9. Process for the manufacture of Z-arylguanof the general-formula idino--hydroxy-G-methylpyrimidines devoid of OC-X acidic substituents which comprises the interaction of an arylbiguanide devoid of acidic sub- 5 stituents with an acetoacetic ester. OCOH wherein X and Y represent members of the group FRANCIS HENRY SWINDEN CURD- consisting of hydrogen and hydrocarbon radi- FRANCIS LESLIE ROSE.

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